Sensitivity, Error and Uncertainty Quantification for Atomic, Plasma, and Material Data

Stony Brook University, New York, November 7-9, 2015

The vision behind the workshop is to extend the US multidisciplinary activity on uncertainty quantification in order to implement/extend it to new or presently nonstandard areas of application in atomistic, multiphysics and quantum mechanical models of matter and physical processes. Uncertainty quantification is now an essential ingredient in developing predictive sciences and includes wide ranges of algorithmic and computational methods within mathematics and statistics.

Our motivation arises from the increasing need to move predictive simulation methodologies from investigations in basic science to their robust application within design and engineering processes including consistent integration with data from observation or experiment. 

The workshop will bring together computational physicists and chemists with mathematicians and computational scientists whose focus is the mathematical and computational foundations of both epistemic and aleatory uncertainty.

Anticipated to be the first in a series, this workshop will focus on theory and simulation relevant to fusion and astrophysical plasmas including their interface with materials such as is necessary in the design of practical fusion reactors. Participating scientists will span materials science, chemistry, atomic/molecular/optical physics and plasma physics.

Expected workshop outcomes include a report to start establishing a research agenda in the space and the germination of a multidisciplinary research community. Number of participants at this conference is limited to 70.